<html> <table border="1" align="center"> <tr> <td width="76%"><strong>BEATS</strong><br> (1950-1965)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mood:<br> Aesthetic-Erotics:<br> Attitude:<br> Brain-Tech:<br> Intellectual Viewpoint:<br> Humanist Quotient:<br> Politics:<br> Cosmic View:</td> <td>Cool, laid back.<br> Artistic, literate, hip. Interested in poetry, drugs, jazz.<br> Sarcastic, cynical.<br> Low-tech, but early psychedelic explorers.<br> Well-informed, skeptical, street-smart.<br> Tolerant of race and gay rights, but often male chauvinist.<br> Bohemian, anti-Establishment.<br> Romantic pessimism, Buddhist cosmology.</td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>HIPPIES</strong><br> (1965-1975)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mood:<br> Aesthetic-Erotics:<br> Attitude:<br> Brain-Tech:<br> Intellectual Viewpoint:<br> Humanist Quotient:<br> Politics:<br> Cosmic View:</td> <td>Blissed out.<br> Earthy, horny, free-love oriented. Pot, LSD, acid rock.<br> Peaceful, idealistic.<br> Psychedelic, but anti-high-tech.<br> Know-it-all, anti-intellectual.<br> Male chauvinist, sometimes sexist, but socially tolerant and global village visionary.<br> Classless, irreverent, passivist, but occasionally activist.<br> Acceptance of chaotic nature of universe, but via Hindu passivity. Unscientific, occult minded, intuitive.</td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><strong>CYBERPUNKS</strong><br> (1975-1990)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mood:<br> Aesthetic-Erotics:<br> Attitude:<br> Brain-Tech:<br> Intellectual Viewpoint:<br> Humanist Quotient:<br> Politics:<br> Cosmic View:</td> <td>Gloomy. Hip, but downbeat.<br> Leather and grunge, tattoos, piercings. Hard drugs, psychedelics, smart drugs. From rock to metal to rap.<br> Angry, cynical, feel undervalued by elders.<br> High-tech electronic.<br> Informed, open-minded, irreverent. Inundated with electronic signals.<br> Non-sexist, ecological, global minded.<br> Alienated, skeptical.<br> Pessimistic, but closet hope fiends.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><p><strong>NEW BREED</strong><br> (1990-2005)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mood:<br> Aesthetic-Erotics:<br> Attitude:<br> Brain-Tech:<br> Intellectual Viewpoint:<br> Humanist Quotient:<br> Politics:<br> Cosmic View:</td> <td>Alert, cheerful.<br> Invention of personal style. Eclectic. Prefer techno and ambient music.<br> Self-confident.<br> Psychedelic, super high-tech. Smart drugs, brain machines, Internet.<br> Informed, open-minded, irreverent.<br> Tolerant, non-sexist, ecological, global.<br> Detached, individualistic. Zen opportunists.<br> Acceptance of complexity, willingness to be a "chaos designer."</td> </tr> </table> </html> for german version see EvolutionDerGegenkulturen
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